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I’m rather hoping things settle down next week once all the loons have full tanks.
Got half a tank in the 4 series which will last until next weekend but ultimately will have to fill up at some point. I tend to fill up weekly when I do the food shop which gets me from half tank to full, I prefer to have a full tank ‘just in case’ which has actually panned out well right now considering. Annoyingly our local Morrisons was gridlocked so I didn’t even bother with the food shop as I would be sitting in the queue as it’s one road in past the garage to even get to the supermarket. |
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My 335d has about 50 miles left in the tank so went to fill up this afternoon. Some were completely closed, others had petrol and none had diesel. No major queues though.
Went to Asda and there was at least an hour long queue, thought sod that not wasting my life there so went back home, don't know if it had any diesel or not. I'm lucky in that I can WFH so will try again once this palaver dies down.
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09-25-2021, 02:38 PM | #96 |
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Well at least there's only so much fuel you can have in your tank at once, and I doubt most people have a 500l tank in their garage (unlike a few mates I know!), so unlike toilet roll which all the wankers were stockpiling this should only last long enough for the tanks to get re-filled a few times (he says hopefully).
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09-25-2021, 04:58 PM | #98 |
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And the hits just keep on coming, Stanlow oil refinery that supplies a 1/6th of our fuel on the brink of collapse, they're going to have to keep it going otherwise there will be the mother of all panic buys next week
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/f...apse-k9f9zxbr5
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Temporary visas to Xmas Eve. Same populist shit as last year's lockdown easing, save our precious xmas, rather than anything that remotely resembles a strategy.
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Why would they bother coming back anyway? Articles I've read are saying that drivers who left who've stayed in the industry are enjoying higher wages and better working conditions in the EU and those that didn't have found other jobs. Apart from the stupidly short duration of the visa, they wouldn't be entitled to any of the advantages that they had before when we were in the EU such as access to healthcare. And how are they supposed to find accommodation for three months? Sleep in their cabs? I've also read in different places that the driver shortage is between 75,000 and 100,000, so assuming a 50% uptake of the temp visa offer, which seems unlikely, 2,500 imported drivers isn't going to make much difference. I would also imagine that many drivers who got caught up in the Xmas chaos in Kent last year won't forget spending days on end in the attached park in a hurry. B****t was always going to be a nightmare, given our longstanding dependency on immigration for essential workers, but this government's management of it has been jaw-droppingly dreadful - and predictably so.
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I was pretty shocked by how little the drivers earned and how poor the facilities are for them these days, I used to go off with my grandfather for a week at a time during the summer holidays back in the 80's as he was a HGV driver, I had a great time and never had to piss at the side of the road or sleep in the cab.
We'd travelling all round the north of England and Scotland it was ace.
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Well made it home, most motorway services on M1 appeared to have some fuel but I made it without.... so now have two cars with best part of buggar all fuel between both!
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I'm grounded in West Cornwall for the time being. Not complaining mind, this was the view from the SW Coast Path yesterday afternoon
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